| #55552 in Books | 1997-01-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.40 x.60 x5.10l,.68 | File Name: 0393970140 | 272 pages
||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Assigned College Reading|By David H. Birley|A view of slavery written in the 18th century, and assigned as part of a college literature class. It is hard to say "I enjoyed it" because much of its content is painful. However the authoress, at a time when female novelists were a true rarity, has a powerful and poignant way of presenting slavery as I had never seen it before. The|About the Author|Aphra Behn flourished in the cosmopolitan world of the London playhouse and the court. It was she, Virginia Woolf wrote, "who earned [women] the right to speak their minds."
Joanna Lipking is Lecturer in English at Northwestern Unive
This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Aphra Behn’s best-known and most influential work makes available the original 1688 text, the only text published in her lifetime.
The editor supplies explanatory annotations and textual notes.
"Historical Backgrounds" is an especially rich collection of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century documents about colonizers and slaves in the new world. Topically arranged-"Montaigne on America,... [PDF.qk16] Oroonoko (Norton Critical Editions) Rating: 4.57 (529 Votes)
